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This year’s Templeton Prize has been awarded to Polish physicist and Catholic priest Michal Heller. From the group’s website: Heller, 72, Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at the Pontifical Academy of Theology in Cracow, toiled for years beneath the stifling strictures of the Soviet era. He has become a compelling figure in the realms…

Inside Catholic has posted a slew – a slew -of reactions to the Pew study. The respondants are all over the map, and include a bishop or two. It’s well worth a read, and Inside Catholic has done a great job of collecting this diverse responses. Eve Tushnet’s struck me as one of the wisest.…

In reflecting on the latest misreporting of Catholic news, I’m not seeing this as simple “anti-Catholicism” or “anti-religion.” Because it seems to me that it would be very easy to report the 7 Deadly Sins story with an anti-Catholic angle without doing a whole lot of work: “Archbishop Gianfranco Girotti, in an interview conducted within…

Sandro Magister has a very interesting column today, in which he looks at five recent General Audience talks (remember, the Pope is going through the Greek and Latin Fathers) and pegs the moments when the Pope begins to extemporize. After the Easter season, the pope will dedicate catecheses to other great Patristic figures like Gregory…
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